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Ancient/Iron Age Tribal names....Latin or Local.
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Eburacum, became Eoforwicescaestre in Ango-Saxon, which retains the Celtic/Latin structure Ebor-vicus-castrum almost unchanged, except that 'eofor' meant wild boar in Old English, so that the English would have considered it to mean Boar-town-fort. The Vikings then changed it to Jorvik which then became York. Eburacum and York do not look connected as names but they are; many other apparently entirely English names probably conceal Celtic origins in a similar way.
Martin

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Ancient/Iron Age Tribal names....Latin or Local. - by Urselius - 12-21-2013, 08:23 PM

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